Rocha Department

Rocha
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Basic data
Country	Uruguay
Capital	Rocha
surface	10,551 km²
Residents	68,088 (2011)
density	6.5 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	UY-RO
Website	www.rocha.gub.uy (Spanish)
politics
Intendant	Artigas Barrios
Political party	Front Amplio

Coordinates: 34 ° 0 ′  S , 53 ° 59 ′  W

Rocha is a department in Uruguay . It is located in the southeast of the country on the Atlantic Ocean , on the border with Brazil .

geography

location

The department borders on the departments Treinta y Tres and Lavalleja in the northwest and west and on Maldonado in the southwest.

Natural resources

Peat is found in the Bañados de Rocha in the middle east of the department . In addition, there are deposits of black sand ( Arenas Negras ) at Aguas Dulces on an approximately 35 km long section between La Paloma and Chuy . Salt , magnesia , potassium sulfate and gypsum are stored at La Coronilla .

Settlement structure

The capital Rocha has 25,422 inhabitants. The second largest city is Chuy on the border with Brazil with 9,675 inhabitants. (Status: 2011) The larger settlements in the department include Castillos , Lascano , Velázquez and Cebollatí . There are also numerous seaside resorts on the Atlantic coast.

history

The Departamento Rocha was created on the basis of a legal regulation of July 7, 1880 by splitting off from the Departamento Maldonado.

Population development

While 69,937 inhabitants were counted in 2004, the number of inhabitants determined in the context of the 2011 census was 68,088. Of these, 33,269 were men and 34,819 women.

Infrastructure

education

Rocha has a total of eleven secondary schools ( Liceos ), in which 6,315 students are taught by 627 teachers. The oldest Liceo in the department is the Liceo Nº 1 Departamental "Cora Vigliola de Renaud" , which was established in the department capital Rocha and was founded in 1912 . (As of December 2008)

traffic

The Montevideo - Rocha railway runs through the department . In addition, the following roads run through the department: Ruta 9 , Ruta 10 , Ruta 13 , Ruta 14 , Ruta 15 , Ruta 16 .

economy

The economy is based on agriculture , fishing and tourism . There are many seaside resorts on the Atlantic coast, the most important being La Paloma, Cabo Polonio , Valizas, Aguas Dulces, Punta del Diablo , Santa Teresa and Laguna Negra .

politics

Artigas Barrios of the Frente Amplio holds the leading position of the executive branch of the department, the office of the intendente .

Web links

Commons : Rocha Department  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rocha in the Enciclopedia Geografica del Uruguay (Spanish)
• Internet presence of the Comuna de Rocha (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arenas Negras ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) on the website of the Federacion Anarquista Uruguaya (fAu) in November 2003, accessed on November 25, 2012  
2. ↑ Ulises Rubens Grub : Atlas geografico de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo 1980, p. 35
3. ↑ 7 de julio de 1880 - Creación de Departamento de Rocha  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) from uruguayeduca.edu.uy, accessed February 10, 2017  
4. ↑ Statistical data of the 2011 census ( memento of the original from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay , accessed on August 29, 2012 (XLS file; 25 kB)  
5. ↑ Liceos del Uruguay (Spanish) (PDF; 7.3 MB), accessed on February 29, 2012
6. ↑ Ulises Rubens Grub : Atlas geografico de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo 1980, p. 37
7. ↑ Ulises Rubens Grub : Atlas geografico de la República Oriental del Uruguay, Montevideo 1980, p. 39